{"id":25733,"date":"2015-09-25T20:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/bisexual-visibility-week-excerpt-from-bi-any-other-name-bisexual-people-speak-out-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-its-publication\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:20:05","slug":"bisexual-visibility-week-excerpt-from-bi-any-other-name-bisexual-people-speak-out-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-its-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/bisexual-visibility-week-excerpt-from-bi-any-other-name-bisexual-people-speak-out-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-its-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisexual Visibility Week: Excerpt from &#039;Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out!&#039; on the 25th Anniversary of Its Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bisexual Visibility Week: Excerpt from &#039;Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out!&#039; on the 25th Anniversary of Its Publication<\/b><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Out&#8221;line of one <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>&#8217;s polymorphic liberation &#8212; excerpt<br \/> By ben e factory (AKA Binyamin Biber)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Becoming conscious of my sexuality and finally coming out began with my involvement in religious youth activities: Summer camp, retreats and then conferences turned out to be hotbeds of hetero- and homo-eroticism with all of the multi-bunk rooms, open showers, hand-holding partner-switching folk dancing and those quiet wandering paths.<\/p>\n<p> Topeka, Kansas, 1974, is, believe it or not, where and when I first touched another <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">naked<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> and felt that sexual &#8220;thang.&#8221; A religious youth conference brought us to Topeka, where several of us somehow ended up in a gym or health club. There in a steamy steam room, I discovered myself leisurely lounging about with a few chums, all of us <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">naked<\/a>. We filled this little room with our contacts &#8212; visual, verbal and physical (shoulder to shoulder, rubbing elbows and knocking knees). This was the first time I was conscious of wanting to touch another <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> in a sexual way.<\/p>\n<p> At 14 I found myself signed up for Compulsory Heterosexual Monogamy 101: dating, kissing <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a>, then caressing and massaging their backs, breasts, legs and buttocks. I noticed compulsory heterosexuality caused me to become stiff. 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He said he loved me too, but wasn&#8217;t into <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> with <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>. Frustrated in my unrequited love, but not feeling rejected, I went off to the University of Iowa. There I met Karen, who accepted my love and my &#8220;bisexuality&#8221; (I finally knew that Elton John and I were not alone in the world). Karen and I joined the Socialist Party USA and several other campus and community activist groups, learning more about heterosexism and liberation as we grew together.<\/p>\n<p> The summer of 1978, I roomed with Bill, a friend from high school. 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